FTI · 1 week ago
R&D Technical Program Manager
WI - Menasha
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
20+ years expFaith Technologies is a company that focuses on construction, engineering, manufacturing, and renewable energy. The Technical Program Manager will support initiatives across all divisions of FTI, developing and executing programs that align with business strategy and managing cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.
Construction
Responsibilities
Serves as change agent: Makes project goals their own and uses their skills and expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team and encourage improvement opportunities
Management of large projects with high complexity; multiple inter-dependent projects and programs
Partners with multi-departmental leadership and other stakeholders to locate opportunities, develop and prioritize projects according to relevant measurement criteria
Oversees all aspects of assigned programs throughout project lifecycles to ensure completion within the defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints
Ensures accurate allocations of resources throughout the program
Leads multi-disciplinary teams, composed of various levels of resources and/or vendors to create and deploy successful programs
Works with Project Sponsor and Solution Owner to ensure scope is explicitly defined, documented and integrity maintained
Works with Operations and Estimating staff in development of design / engineering project budgets and cost for submittal to customers
Establishes and executes a project communication plan, meeting facilitation, presentation, and delivery
Demonstrates success in team leadership, stakeholder management, process adherence, ownership/ commitment, learning agility and risk management capabilities
Ensures programs and projects are delivered within approved budget, schedule, contingency and meets quality standards
Engages team to identify all project risk, develops mitigation strategies/plans and works to have strategies in place should they be needed and negotiates conflict resolution when needed between team members or Solution Owners
Utilizes motivation techniques to ensure project team reaches goals and milestones
Works with design / engineering staff and operations in the management of agreed upon design / engineering project budgets and cost
Manages team to document scope of design for customer review and ensures that all assumptions in design are documented to avoid risk
Networks, establishes, and maintains customer relationships
Plans, organizes, and staffs projects. Ensures that projects are completed safely, profitably, timely, of a high quality and according to customer expectations
Communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential escalation of risks or issues. Proactively follows escalation and change control processes. Manages overall ownership of reports on a given engagement
Serves as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project. Cultivates the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of the project stakeholders
Maintains detailed record throughout the life of a project by ensuring documentation is saved within project repository in a timely manner and shares information as necessary
Serves as a mentor to peers and other team members
Ensures projects are completed safely, profitably, timely, of high quality, and according to customer expectations
Promotes a positive Company Culture by fostering friendly and constructive employee relations
Performs other related duties as required and assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's in Business Administration, Electrical Engineering or other related fields required with Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Minimum of 20 years of demonstrated Project Management experience
Experience with stage-gate Product Development Process (PDP), Product Lifecycle Management, and Solution Delivery Process (SDP)
Recent experience managing large projects with high complexity; multiple projects and programs
Management of large project teams consisting of a wide array of resource skill sets across multiple locations
Previous experiencing managing / controlling project budgets greater than $5M
Strong stakeholder management skills with experience interacting with Executive Leadership
Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to develop executive level communications
Preferred
MBA, Program Management Professional (PMP) and additional technical certifications
Lean Six Sigma certification or experience
Change management certification or experience
Benefits
Industry-leading benefits
Competitive, merit-based compensation
Career path development
Flexible and robust benefits package
Company
FTI
Faith Technologies Incorporated (FTI) is a dynamic organization comprised of construction, engineering, manufacturing and renewable energy experts.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Michael Jansen
CEO & Chairman of the Board
Michael Richart
Chief Business Officer, Executive Vice President
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